"Young Master, Young Master, what's wrong with you?" Shen Wei hurried over and helped Zhao Xuanyi up. "What did you see?"
Zhao Xuanyi pointed at the mouth of the boy in front of him with trembling fingers, "He...he...?" Zhao Xuanyi was so frightened that he couldn't say a word! .
Shen Wei was very strange. He walked up to the boy, held the boy's chin, and looked into the boy's mouth. The next moment, Shen Wei's eyes widened and he looked at the boy seriously: "Child, where is your tongue?"
"Woo...?" The man was gesturing with his hands, but because it wasn't a professional term, Shen Wei couldn't understand it!
At this time, the little girl on the side said, "He went up the mountain more than a month ago, intending to catch some hares to eat, but when he met people in the mountains, they cut out his tongue!"
"Luckily he was lucky, otherwise he would have almost died!" said another little boy.
"What? Was it cut off?" After Zhao Xuanyi heard this, his anger instantly ignited. Who could be so cruel?
"Then you saw...?" Shen Wei continued to ask, but was stopped by Zhao Xuanyi. Then Zhao Xuanyi looked around, his eyes full of defense!
"Ahem! Don't worry, keep eating until you're full!" Zhao Xuanyi said with a smile.
"Thank you, uncle!" The four children sat at the table and ate thirty-six buns in one go. For these children, this was a very filling meal!
Zhao Xuanyi saw that several children were not eating, so he asked, "Are you full?"
"full!"
"Okay! Wrap up the rest and save it for next meal!"
"Thank you!" The four children took out a piece of rag and wrapped all the buns!
Zhao Xuanyi looked at them, "Where will you stay at night?"
"North of the city! There is a shabby thatched house over there, no one wants it! We all sleep there!"
"Can you sleep in that poor place? You can follow me from now on! I don't dare to say anything else, I won't let you go hungry! How about it?" Zhao Xuanyi asked.
When the four children heard this, they were very happy and immediately knelt down and kowtowed to Zhao Xuanyi, "Thank you very much, sir, you are really a living Bodhisattva!"
"Don't, don't, don't...it won't happen! What kind of uncle are you? Just call me young master from now on!"
"Yes! Young Master!"
Zhao Xuanyi looked at the four little beggars and said, "Brother Shen, go find a place to give them a bath and buy them new clothes! These shabby clothes should have been changed a long time ago!"
"Yes!" Shen Wei took three of the boys away, and Nan Zhu took the other girl away. Then they came to an inn, and Nan Zhu asked for a bucket of hot water to give the little girl a bath!
Half an hour later, Shen Wei came back with his three children. The three children also put on new clothes and washed their faces. Zhao Xuanyi took a closer look and saw that they all looked very cute. Most of the children were very beautiful!
"What are your names?" Zhao Xuanyi asked.
"My name is Si Weidong, and I am their eldest brother. This is the second eldest brother, Gu Nan. That girl is our third sister, her name is Chen Fang! The one who cannot speak is the youngest, her name is Wang Jianhua!"
"You...are all orphans?"
"Yes! Gu Nan and I are from the same village. Later we met Fa Chai and Wang Jianhua, and we got together!"
"How old can you be?"
"I am ten years old. Gu Nan is eight years old, Chen Fang is six years old, and Wang Jianhua is also six years old!" Si Weidong said.
Zhao Xuanyi sighed, he never expected that these children would come out to live alone at such an old age! Eating hundreds of meals, if you don't starve to death, you are lucky!
"Sure. My surname is Zhao! You can call me Young Master from now on! From now on, you will follow me. I am doing things now. When I finish the things, I will take you home. Then I will let you read and write and raise you. Da, work by my side from now on!"
"Yes! Thank you young master!" Si Weidong and Gu Nan shouted, while Wang Jianhua couldn't speak, but his two little hands were hugged together!
Nanzhu walked out with Chen Fang at this time. Zhao Xuanyi saw Chen Fang. She had changed into a pink dress and her face was clean. She looked very cute and beautiful. Zhao Xuanyi's eyes lit up. This was going to happen.
She has grown up and is definitely a beauty!
"Your name is Chen Fang, right?"
"Yes! Young Master!"
"Very good! Go home and be my wife's maid from now on!"
"Okay!" Chen Fang did not refuse, but was very happy. They finally found a place to eat!
Zhao Xuanyi opened a few more rooms, and then brought several children to his room to sit and talk. Nanzhu also brought a plate of fruit, Zhao Xuanyi asked softly. ap..
"Now that we are in the inn, I have something to ask you seriously!"
"Young master, tell us, we will tell you everything!" Si Weidong said with a smile.
"Wang Jianhua, who cut off your tongue? Tell me exactly what happened!"
After Wang Jianhua heard this, he turned to look at Si Weidong. Si Weidong nodded, "Say, I'll tell the young master what you said!"
Wang Jianhua began to hesitate and kept gesticulating with his hands, while Si Weidong was translating on the side. "About a month ago, he went to Lingshan to see if the trap he had set had caught the prey, but he was suddenly captured by a group of The man in uniform was caught!"
"They were afraid that he would leak what was going on here, so they just cut off his tongue with a dagger, and then threw him down the mountain and ignored him. He ran back on his own!"
Zhao Xuanyi wanted to ask something else, but when he saw that Wang Jianhua's face was full of tears and his eyes were full of fear, Zhao Xuanyi took a deep breath and patted Wang Jianhua's head, "Don't be afraid, I will be here from now on." , no one can bully you! Do you remember what the people who caught you look like?"
Wang Jianhua nodded fiercely.
"Did you see something? That's why they cut out your tongue?"
Wang Jianhua looked at Si Weidong again, and Si Weidong quickly translated, "He saw the group of people transporting all the boxes up the mountain, but he didn't know what was inside!"
"how many?"
"A lot! Dozens!"
After Zhao Xuanyi heard this, he exchanged looks with Shen Wei and Nan Zhu. There was indeed something wrong here! "Do you know who those soldiers on the mountain are? According to our investigation, there are no imperial military camps stationed nearby!"
"I've heard of it!" Gu Nan said.
"Say it!"
"They don't seem to be soldiers of the imperial court!"
"Not from the imperial court? Whose is it?"
"I went to beg for food on the street a while ago, and a group of soldiers passed by on the street. They were very arrogant, driving away the people around them as they walked. I heard from other people that this group of people seemed to come from far away! Very far away !"..
"Very far away? Did you hear it specifically?"
"I... heard it, but I forgot about it. I just walked by and didn't hear it clearly. What kind of clouds did it seem like? Something like that!"
Shen Wei rolled his eyes, "Yunnan?"
"Yes! It's Yunnan! When you said that, I remembered it! That's where it is!"
"..." When Zhao Xuanyi and Shen Wei heard this, they were both stunned! Yunnan? There is no one else but King Yongle who has the strength in Yunnan!
"Cangshan Cavalry?" Shen Wei asked.
"Impossible! Didn't you go and see them last night? If they were average, they couldn't be Cangshan Riders! And they have very few horses!"
"Then... could it be that they are King Yongle's private soldiers?" Nan Zhu asked.
"It's very possible! This group of soldiers has no organization at all, and the purpose of putting them here is very simple, just to protect Zhu Qing'an! A month and a half ago, that was when Zhu Qing'a went to the capital. It seems that they had hidden themselves at that time In the mountains!" After Zhao Xuanyi finished speaking, he frowned!
Unexpectedly, I didn’t expect that Zhu Qingya actually still had a back-up plan! Three thousand men and horses, this is a large force. If used properly, the consequences will be disastrous!
"This princess really has a palace!" Shen Wei said with a sneer.
"It's because we underestimated this princess!" Zhao Xuanyi sighed, "But at least we can know that these people are not the same as our goals.
Do not conflict! And...the water here is very deep! "
"What do you mean by this, young master?" Shen Wei asked.
"The soldiers stationed on the mountain are the soldiers of King Yongle, but the one who sealed the mountain is the local prefect!"
"Young Master, are you saying...?" Shen Wei suddenly looked at Nan Zhu.
Nanzhu also nodded, "Based on the current situation, Prefect Peng Liuhuai must have something to do with this matter!"
